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The SS Princess Alice was a steel-built passenger liner in the coastal service fleet of the Canadian Pacific Railway. Along with her sister ships, the SS Princess Adelaide, SS Princess Sophia, and SS Princess Mary, she cruised the Inside Passage along the coast of British Columbia. In 1913 the SS Princess Alice made several cruises through Southeast Alaska, with stops in Petersburg, at a reduced rate of sixty dollars round trip ($1,906 today).

The 291-foot ship was built in 1911 by Swan Hunter in Wallsend, United Kingdom, for the Canadian Pacific Railway. She was known as a pocket liner becaus...

 

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